Real Estate

A major development on Bryant Street has turned artist against artist as the owners of Inner Mission, who earlier struck a deal with the developer, have run into resistance from three sub-tenants who refuse to...

In a room packed with contention, the Planning Commission decided Thursday in a 5-to-1 vote to begin considering temporary controls on development in the Mission. The Commission will take a final vote on a resolution...

A former gas station on the corner of 16th Street and South Van Ness Avenue that was slated for market rate condos will now be affordable housing, Mayor Lee and District Supervisor David Campos announced today. The...

While the Board of Supervisors debates revisions to regulations on short-term rentals, expected next month, Airbnb—the $20 billion behemoth that dominates this industry—is busily marshaling U.S. Census data to defend its business. Its recent 10-page...

The Chronicle reports that the Building Trades Council, a group of representatives from construction labor unions, has submitted a resolution to the Planning Commission opposing the large rental development planned for Bryant Street. The developer of...

Neighbors and supporters gathered at 6 a.m. Wednesday morning to rally against the eviction of an elderly woman who they describe as mentally disabled. The neighbors – all of whom are locked in a legal battle to prevent their own evictions –...

A woman neighbors described as mentally disabled is set to be evicted as early as Wednesday morning from the house that Jack Halprin, a Google employee and Mission landlord, bought in 2012 for $1.4 million. The...

When San Francisco passed a measure legalizing short-term rentals (better known under brands like Airbnb) earlier this year, it contained so many rules that the Board of Supervisors must have thought – briefly – that...

This afternoon the Board of Supervisors will vote on Supervisor David Campos’s call for a temporary moratorium on luxury housing development in the Mission—one of a handful of ideas currently being circulated as possible solutions...

Tenants at 812 Guerrero, who have been fighting their evictions by Google employee Jack Halprin for more than a year now, learned yesterday that their landlord would appeal the decision to quash their evictions. That...

Tuesday evening’s rowdy community meeting on a new eight-unit, five-story market rate housing development at 24th and York Street pitted a Mission-bred property owner against neighbors concerned with the scale and affordability of his proposal....

A Superior Court Judge ruled this week that Jack Halprin, a Google lawyer and Mission landlord, had failed to pay required relocation fees to a teacher, her partner and their son, who live in one of...

With the Mission poised to take over City Hall today to call for a moratorium on market rate housing production in the neighborhood, it’s clear that there is frustration with the pace of construction of affordable housing....

“How do we actually build affordable housing in this neighborhood?” asked Supervisor David Campos. If it appears to be a question that Campos should know the answer to – he doesn’t and neither does Mayor...

The California State Park Foundation’s Park Champions program is committed to providing consistent, sustainable, and ongoing volunteer support to park staff throughout the state. We are currently looking for more volunteers to help out at Candlestick Point State Recreation Area. Each month, we hold one Wednesday workday at Candlestick from 9am to 1:30pm. These workdays focus on assisting park staff with light maintenance. Projects include: tree trimming, brush removal, weeding,...

Operation Babylift: Perspectives and Legacies explores the diverse experiences and lasting impacts of a dramatic airlift that removed more than 2,000 Vietnamese children from their war-torn country to be adopted by American families as Saigon fell in April 1975. The extraordinary story continued at the Presidio, where more than 1,500 of these children were transferred before being placed with adoptive families. As 5,400 volunteers in the San Francisco Bay Area...